The right to respect for private life did not require that voluntary active
euthanasia should give rise to a defence of necessity to a charge of murder.
Further, the Director of Public Prosecutions had no duty to clarify his
published policy on prosecution for assisting suicide.

The Queen’s Bench Divisional Court so held when

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